'We hope the new policies make sure that other people aren't stopped and harassed just because they look Latino,' said Stephanie Martinez, who says she and her family were wrongly targeted by deputies.
A sheriff's office in Mississippi has agreed to adopt new policies to ensure that its deputies will stop racially profiling motorists. The move comes after a family of five was wrongfully stopped and detained for hours by a deputy looking for undocumented immigrants.as part of a settlement signed last month with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Mississippi Center for Justice on behalf of the family that was stopped.
While all defendants denied the allegations made in the lawsuit, the Martinez family has maintained that they were unlawfully stopped and detained based solely on a deputy's perception of their race and ethnicity. While the program does encourage local law enforcement agencies to assist immigration law enforcers like the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, it does not give local law the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.
Under the new policies, deputies with the sheriff's office are prohibited from stopping or detaining people based on the suspicion that they may be in the U.S. undocumented. The sheriff's office will also be required to collect data on the race and ethnicity of the motorists it stops, as well as information on how long and what the outcome was of each stop.
"This case is a powerful reminder that when local law enforcement tries to do the job of federal immigration agents, they will face costly legal challenges," said Gillian Gillers, a senior staff attorney for the SPLC, in a statement."We're very glad Hancock County agreed to get out of the business of immigration enforcement."
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